Boring but with Potential

by Sarah Jen

I never liked my name. It’s bland and boring. You know how some girls’ names sound like a princess or the star of a romance? Mine reminds me of a maid, just some random, commonplace person. This may be effected by my reading Sarah, Plain and Tall when I was younger but I can't help that. Instead of water pouring into a tall glass or something soft as silk it’s like a song on repeat. To start with it’s a nice name but each time it’s said it loses some of the essence that made it beautiful to begin with. The worst thing about having a boring name is that I don’t think I’m that kind of person. Maybe I seem like it at first but I have so many ideas that I’m convinced no one else has thought. That make me different. That make me me.

In some other ways in a boring name comes all the excitement of possibility. With an exciting name you expect excitement and adventure but in Sarah is held the potential for something completely new, all her own to say she has experienced or over come.